I filmed fIREHOSE at Cattle 3 or 4 times. I picked this one because it sounds good and it was during my favorite tour. Brian, do you remember why you did this one at the4 Eagles hall and not cattle?
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Tag: fIREHOSE
fIREHOSE- Eagle’s Hall, Sacramento Ca 5/11/89 xfer from master videotape enhanced Mike Watt
I have always felt that this was the best fIREHOSE video I shot- best sound and performance. The problem was that this Eagles hall (like a VFW hall) had high flourescent lighting that cast shadows over Ed and Mike. I was able to fix it enough in Adobe Premiere Elements and neat video to at least see their faces. It’s a big improvement from the original version.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 and Sony ECM-909 mic
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements (shadow correction, lighting/contrast) and neat video (degrain)
fIREHOSE- Cabaret, Buffalo NY 4/25/89 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette Mike Watt Minutemen
Man, I have a LOT of shows that happened on April 25. I picked this one for On This Date in History because a contributor to the archive loves the band. Thanks for the setlist documentation and research, Obaku Cubs/Isabella Askaan. I don’t know your real name, but I appreciate the help!
I think this one was taped by a friend of Anonymous and me. Katie Dee from Buffalo was one of our first tape traders and she is the person who turned me on to a bunch of the early pop punk/alternative bands. I remember her sending me early goo goo dolls stuff during their late 80s Metal Blade Records era.
I am almost certain that Katie bought a Sony D3 walkman to tape shows, and this one definitely sounds like a D3 tape. Nice and crisp with shallow bass.
I found a nice review of the show on newspapers dot con- thanks Dan!
Recorded by: Katie Dee
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
fIREHOSE- Liberty Lunch, Austin Tx 4/6/89 xfer fmaster audio cassette Mike Watt SST Records Complete
Collections post from Craig Hilmer’s collection. He has so much great stuff on these tapes. I was EQ’ing this and stumbled upon a Reivers local radio thing on the end of this tape. After such a crap day, it was nice to find some good stuff. Thanks Craig!
Recorded by: Craig Hilmer
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Sound Forge 10
fIREHOSE- Club Me, Sacramento Ca. 11/19/88 Direct xfer from master
This was the first of 6 or 7 fIREHOSE shows I filmed. The venue was called “Club Obsession”, then “Club Me”, then finally Cattle Club during the glory years. This was before Jerry and Brian’s time, a guy named Clint booked the show. Filmed with an Aiwa CV80 and stock mic. A little dark but not too bad.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment Used: Aiwa CV80
Firehose- Club Me, Sacramento Ca. 11/19/88 xfer from master tape with improved audio enhanced live
Here’s another new post of an old show. The original audio of this video is complete garbage, the high end distrotion on the audio track made it unlistenable. We have taken Anonymous’ better audio and remixed/synched it with the enhanced video. Massive improvement. I think that this is fIREHOSE’s first appearance in Sacramento. At least, it was the first one I knew about.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Aiwa CV-80 Camcorder
Audio recorded by: Anonymous
Equipment used: Awia consumer handheld recorder with stock mic
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy using Nakamichi Dragon, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Audio remix in Sony Soundforge 10
Video enhancement in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
Audio Video Synch by King Bean
Concrete Blonde, DOORS Janes Addiction, fIREHOSE, Los Lobos- Musicalifornia TV Show 1st gen VHS 1988
Here is the last Musicalifornia episode (Episode 13, 1988) that I have. These were a blast to see and share. We did discover through sharing these, that The Pandoras’ Karen Basset is married to the gentleman who produced this series. He has been digitizing his Beta SP masters! Maybe the rest of these episodes will see the light of day sometime.
The Los Lobos- Cinco de Mayo footage on this one is GOLD. Wish it was longer. The Concrete Blonde live footage is well done, too.
Thanks to Erik Flannigan for sending these my way, and to Rick Gershon for holding onto the VHS tape for all these years.
Transfer from 1st gen VHS preproduction master
Concrete Blonde, DOORS Janes Addiction, fIREHOSE, Los Lobos- Musicalifornia TV Show 1st gen VHS 1988
OK, here is a repost of the musicalifornia from last week. It took a week to repost because I learned that the Youtube trimming algorithm sucks. I had to chop off EIGHT minutes (the firehose and janes addiction videos) to get it to take.
Here is the last Musicalifornia episode (Episode 13, 1988) that I have. These were a blast to see and share. We did discover through sharing these, that The Pandoras’ Karen Basset is married to the gentleman who produced this series. He has been digitizing his Beta SP masters! Maybe the rest of these episodes will see the light of day sometime.
The Los Lobos- Cinco de Mayo footage on this one is GOLD. Wish it was longer. The Concrete Blonde live footage is well done, too.
Thanks to Erik Flannigan for sending these my way, to Mike Ziegler for the transfer, and to Rick Gershon for holding onto the VHS tape for all these years.
Transfer from 1st gen VHS preproduction master
Firehose- KCRW, Santa Monica February 1987 xfer from 1st gen audio cassette Mike Watt
Here’s one from my collection today. It comes from that lot of KCRW sessions that I digitized for the station’s archive.
I wish I could remember who I got this from- I recall it being someone who wasn’t a prolific trader and taped stuff in so. cal. They taped it off the radio and sent me a cassette copy.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
fIREHOSE- Mississippi Nights, St. Louis Mo. 11/8/86 Proshot KDHX Cable Xfer f/Master
Here’s another one from the “how the hell is this not on YT yet” file. From Jim Utz’ collection. Off of a master VHS tape, taped off of cable. There is no studio master of this one as far as I know, so this is as good as it gets.